Live Smart Daily | A Smart Take on Daily Life
Live Smart Daily | A Smart Take on Daily Life
Solar Powered Highways
Oregon is installing the nation’s first solar demonstration project in a highway right of way, moving the state a step further in its role as a leader in renewable power development. The solar highway demonstration project is an “all Oregon” effort — Oregon companies will supply materials, design and install this collaborative project. SolarWorld AG [...]
Read more →The Rolling Canvas Art Collective
Created to celebrate the union of the art and urban bicycle cultures, the Rolling Canvas Art Collective will highlight and encourage the use of bicycles as a means of artistic expression. These twenty-plus artists will recreate basic, fixed gear bicycles into one-of-a-kind representations of their creative methods ranging from sculpture and metal work, to street [...]
Read more →A Field Guide to Weeds
A Field Guide to Weeds masquerades as a 19th century pocket guide, but a guide in which the weeds themselves have taken over. This project uses the physical form of the book as a metaphor for a crack in the city sidewalk: printed in luscious five-color printing, the common dandelion, pigweed, and poison ivy—the very [...]
Read more →Keetsa
You spend one-third of your life there, and when it’s time to replace your mattress, you’re faced with a salesman working on commission at a place like “Barney’s Discount Bed Barn”. If, in addition to the perfectly restful sleep, you’re concerned about things like: Recycling & buying products with recycled materials. Seeking a lower carbon [...]
Read more →ETSY
You don’t buy your shoes from a cobbler, and you may not get food directly from the farmer, but if you’re looking for something unique, with perhaps a connection to the artisan who created it, Etsy may be the answer. Created to reconnect producer with consumer, with a community that actively supports one [...]
Read more →2008 Beijing Olympics Coverage
You may actually be interested in sports you only get to see every 4 or 8 years, such as the 20Km walk, or Greco-Roman wrestling. Or you may not care that Hrjck Oienia from Freelandia just did the 900 meter Potato Crawl in world record time.
Read more →RoofRay
Alternative energy is on everyone’s mind these days, so what can you do about it? One way to analyze and evaluate your potential for solar installations at your home or business is RoofRay, the online solar array tool that uses Google Maps to view your property from above, so you can accurately assess whether solar [...]
Read more →Traveler IQ
You may have slowed down in your world travels, but that doesn’t mean you have to forget what you learned. Play the Traveler IQ game by yourself, or amaze and annoy your friends with your international knowledge. Compete against your friends, create your own challenges, or play thousands of challenges created by others.
Read more →WriteRhymes
Thinking about rappin’, composing the next Star Spangled Banner, or just writing a decent love poem? WriteRhymes is the place to begin. Start writing and, as you write, option click on a word to get the perfect rhyme (single or multi-syllabic) for it. And remember, just because it rhymes doesn’t mean it’s good. Use with [...]
Read more →Mygazines
Mygazines is a user-uploaded site that lets you read and archive print magazines. Just pick one of their 1000s of titles, or search by article type (e.g., automotive; electronics & audio; news, business & money; sports), select your desired issue, and use MG’s slick browser to preview all pages/jump around by article name, flip through, [...]
Read more →Volkswagen Shifts into 7th
This innovation represents a crucial step of the strategy of the Volkswagen Group in the field of the transmissions. Effectiveness, character and sporting spirit, such are the values which ensure the long-term success of box DSG. On Touran, resourcefulnesses automation “intelligent” represent already more than 25%. instead it chose to bet on people’s emotional [...]
Read more →The Happiest Book
In one way or another we are all looking for happiness. Some people even say that man’s sole purpose for existence is to hunt down and capture this intangible and elusive treasure. In 2006 researchers at The University of Leicester concluded that Denmark is the happiest country in the world – this was good enough [...]
Read more →How to Buy a Car
Car guy Rob Gruhl from Ignite Seattle can help ease the jitters with a fast-moving, five-minute video on what to look for, how to haggle, and how not to walk off with a lemon. VIA Lifehaker
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